They're not. They're selling manga. If you can't see the difference, you're pretty ignorant.

Child **** is child ****, regardless of the media. If a scene showing sex with an underage girl was in a video game, it would still be child ****. Just because its a type of manga doesn't mean its a whole different ******* thing. Idiots like you who think that just because something is not a true representation of reality (by which I mean a direct image, such as a raw photo or movie) doesn't have consequences disgust me. GTFO.

It's not different because it's manga. It's different because it's animated, you stupid ****. Child pornography is illegal because a minor is not old enough to legally consent. You don't need consent from a drawing. Of course I would never actually read that sick, disgusting shit. I'm just pointing the difference between it and illegal child pornography.

Why do all those categories sound messed up. Chicks with dicks are you serious?

Shotacon is not always with older women. I know from experience. ^_^

I heard it's illegal in the USA due to some kind of "morality law" signed by Bush. I'm pretty sure this law is unconstitutional too because drawings, however morally objectionable, are not harmful to anyone (well so long as you make sure kids don't have access to them). Big big controversy, and though I don't enjoy extreme forms of sex I still side against this law because it is not up to anybody to tell anyone else what sexuality they should have so long as it does not harm anybody. And it certainly isn't the governments role. Not to mention the fact that the definition of Morality is arbitrary. That means there are no guidelines to define what is moral and what is immoral. And when you let the government use the "it's forbidden because it's immoral" argument, then you should be ready to let them make any law they want, because you just gave them the right to define Morality (which has no definition to begin with). I wish they would had proved extreme forms of pornography are harmful to society. It's not the law itself that I don't like, it's the way it has been made. Clearly they don't know if extreme **** is harmful, otherwise that is the argument they would had used. I'm quite sure they spoke of morality because it was more generally acceptable than saying that it's a sin. The whole thing was not about protecting society, it was about enforcing their religious opinions on others. Hopefully that law has been deleted by now. I heard Obama was correcting a lot of the things the Bush administration ****** up.

As far as I know, and I need to know ^_^ loli has not been illegal in the US ever. Bush, Obama, or otherwise.

When people with pedophilia undergo counselling and release back into public, it would be my understanding that imagery like lolicon's would be more useful NOT being accessible, seeing as its suggestive nature would not help prevent relapse. Also, extreme forms of pornography HAVE been proven to be desensitizing, even though there isn't any lab way of directly proving that extreme **** leads to sexual violence, because there are many other factors that seem to correlate to violence apart from the **** (therefore there isn't an absolute statement because there is no ethical way of studying it other than indirectly). Even if the US law was enacted for "religious" or "moral" reasons, I would side with it for the psychological benefits. If you for some reason can't get off with mainstream pornography, don't turn to drawings of prepubescent children, christ. Anyhow, expecting a way to prove "extreme forms of pornography are harmful to society" is about as specific as expecting you can find all the factors contributing to intelligence --> It's not specific. You can't prove something that general, but you can prove little things like pornography's ability to desensitize, or its ability to make guys quote horrifically bad **** lines mid-coitus.

Also, the USA hasn't successfully criminalized explicit forms of lolicon - only Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and a few other countries have. (this all courtesy of the wikipedia page)

Holy crap... Usinglogic, you just managed to articulate several of my most significant beliefs and ideas, something I usually have a difficult time doing. Thank you.